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"Let no freedom be allowed to novelty, because it is not fitting that any addition should be made to antiquity. Let not the clear faith and belief of our forefathers be fouled by any muddy admixture."
-- Pope Sixtus III

Thursday, May 15, 2014

24 is back on the air kiddies, if only for half a "day". Sadly, it seems Right Wing Nuthouse isn't going to keep a running count of the body bags needed. Chloe is back as a goth ex-con Snowden-like traitor [or should that be freedom-fighter?] as is Heller - now the senile US prez along with his now un-catatonic daughter who is married to his power-mad chief of staff [ALWAYS the most accurate part of the show, that].

The hot blondechick from "Chuck" provides some eye candy as she pursues our hero through London, but the most inspired casting is that ofPrime Minister Jeeves.Let us hope he survives the inevitable carnage to come and gets his own series where he battles mohammedan birthrates and angry sodomites to preserve the Empire.

Once again, kiddies, you must be wary of the ChristLast Media when they "report" something about Christ's Church. You must remember that Pope Francis is from Argentina [I was going to type "not from here", but the foreign kiddies might be offended.] and wouldn't know wealth creation and economic freedom if they knelt and kissed his ring [as they should].

Not to worry, all ye totalitarians, America is well on her way to becoming a third world hell-hole complete with a fascist dictator and no jobs except for "government work" which is code for, as the last two popes saw in their homelands, killing your neighbor to keep your other neighbors in line.

Full Question

When
is it appropriate to applaud at Mass? To do so appears to reduce the
Mass to the level of entertainment, but so many people do it nowadays
that I'd like to know if the Church has any teaching about it.

Answer

There
is no Church document specifying applause as an appropriate liturgical
response to music, singing, homilies, or announcements of gratitude by
the presider.
Although the Church does not explicitly state that applause is
inappropriate at Mass, that may be because such a stricture used to be
enforced by Western society. As a matter of traditional Western
etiquette, it used to be severely frowned upon to applaud in church
because church services are worship offered up to God and not
entertainment to be critiqued by the assembly.
Now that society has generally lost the sense that applause is
inappropriate in church, I suspect that the Church may soon have to
speak on the matter before people take the idea to its logical
conclusion and begin to boo when they are insufficiently entertained at
Mass.

Full Question

In
my parish many people at Mass hold their hands up while praying, like
the priest does. I heard that this is an ancient posture of prayer and
that it is good to pray this way. Is this true?

Answer

One
can pray in whatever posture one feels is most conducive to prayer if
one is engaging in private, non-liturgical prayer. However, when one is
praying in a liturgical service, such as Mass, there are rules to be
followed. [Emphasis mine. - F.G.]

It is true that praying with arms outstretched is one of the historic
postures of prayer. However, this fact alone does not mean that it is
to be used in any and all circumstances.

Prostrating oneself on one’s face is also a historic posture of
prayer, but neither the priest nor the laity are directed to assume this
posture during a regular Mass. During a Mass where ordinations are
taking place, the candidates for ordination are directed to prostrate
themselves during the Litany of the Saints. However, if people were to
assume this posture willy-nilly, in any Mass, the liturgy could be
seriously impeded.

This is why people are supposed to adopt those postures the rubrics
direct them to adopt and not other ones. Switching to a different
posture causes problems in the liturgy, either physically or
symbolically.

In the case of the laity praying with arms outstretched, it causes both physical and symbolic problems in the liturgy.

It causes physical problems because the laity typically sit right
next to each other in pews. If they fully extended their arms, people
would be whapped in the face or knocked out of the pew. If they only
partially extend their arms, everybody gets cramped unnecessarily.
Either way, it is not a good idea, for physical reasons alone, for the
laity to begin stretching their arms out in prayer at Mass.

There are also symbolic problems associated with their doing so. No
matter how the posture may or may not have been used in antiquity, today it is a priestly posture in the liturgy.

This is repeatedly made clear in the Church’s liturgical documents. For example, the Ceremonial of Bishops
notes: "Customarily in the Church a bishop or presbyter addresses
prayers to God while standing with hands slightly raised and
outstretched" (CB 104).

Similarly, in the Book of Blessings, whenever there is a
blessing which can be performed either by a member of the clergy or the
laity, the rubrics invariably directs that "A minister who is a priest
or deacon says the prayer of blessing with hands outstretched; a lay
minister says the prayer with hands joined" (BB 1999). Over and over
again, the rubrics direct clergy to pray with hands outstretched and
laity with hands joined.

Because of the special association praying with hands outstretched
has with priestly office, some dissident elements in the Church have
desired to get the laity into the habit of praying in this posture
during Mass. This furthers the dissident agenda of continuing to blur
the line between the laity and the clergy.

Fortunately, the recent Instruction on Collaboration (Nov.
13, 1997) drew the line on this issue and specifically mandated that
"Neither may . . . non-ordained members of the faithful use gestures or
actions which are proper to the . . . priest celebrant" (ICP, Practical
Provisions 6 §2).

The reference to gestures that are appropriate to the priest
celebrating the Mass certainly includes praying with arms outstretched,
which is probably the single most frequent gesture the rubrics direct
him to make during Mass and which is clearly tied to the office of
priest in the Church’s liturgical documents.

Consequently, in the liturgy, laity should not be praying with hands outstretched.

From NASA Science:

One of the fastest spacecraft ever built -- NASA's New Horizons --
is hurtling through the void at nearly one million miles per day.
Launched in 2006, it has been in flight longer than some missions last,
and it is nearing its destination: Pluto.

“The encounter begins next January,” says Alan Stern, of the
Southwest Research Institute and the mission’s principal investigator.
“We’re less than a year away.”

Closest approach is scheduled for July 2015 when New Horizons
flies only 10,000 km from Pluto, but the spacecraft will be busy long
before that date. The first step, in January 2015, is an intensive
campaign of photography by the Long Range Reconnaissance Imager or
“LORRI.” This will help mission controllers pinpoint Pluto's location,
which is uncertain by a few thousand kilometers.

"LORRI will photograph the planet against known background star
fields," explains Stern. "We’ll use the images to refine Pluto’s
distance from the spacecraft, and then fire the engines to make any
necessary corrections.”
At first, Pluto and its large moon Charon will be little more than
distant pinpricks—“a couple of fat pixels,” says Stern--but soon they
will swell into full-fledged worlds.

By late April 2015, the approaching spacecraft will be taking
pictures of Pluto that surpass the best images from Hubble. By closest
approach in July 2015, a whole new world will open up to the
spacecraft’s cameras. If New Horizons flew over Earth at the same
altitude, it could see individual buildings and their shapes.

Stern is looking forward to one of the most exciting moments of the Space Age.
“Humankind hasn't had an experience like this--an encounter with a
new planet [Huh? What planet? WTF? Stop toying with words and give ol' Pluto his Planetary ID card BACK, you bastards! - F.G.] --in a long time,” he says. “Everything we see on Pluto will
be a revelation.”

He likens New Horizons to Mariner 4, which flew past Mars in July
1965. At the time, many people on Earth, even some scientists, thought
the Red Planet was a relatively gentle world, with water and vegetation
friendly to life. Instead, Mariner 4 revealed a desiccated wasteland of
haunting beauty. New Horizons’ flyby of Pluto will occur almost exactly
50 years after Mariner 4’s flyby of Mars—and it could shock observers
just as much.

Other than a few indistinct markings seen from afar by Hubble,
Pluto’s landscape is totally unexplored. Although some astronomers call
Pluto a “dwarf” planet, Stern says there’s nothing small about it. “If
you drove a car around the equator of Pluto, the odometer would rack up
almost 5,000 miles—as far as from Manhattan to Moscow.” Such a traveler
might encounter icy geysers, craters, clouds, mountain ranges, rilles
and valleys, alongside alien landforms no one has ever imagined.

“There is a real possibility that New Horizons will discover new moons and rings as well,” says Stern.

Yes, Pluto could have rings. [The Steelers have six. Get it? - F.G.] Already, Pluto has five known moons:
Charon, Styx, Nix, Kerberos, and Hydra. Numerical simulations show that
meteoroids striking those satellites could send debris into orbit,
forming a ring system that waxes and wanes over time in response to
changes in bombardment.

“We’re flying into the unknown,” says Stern, “and there is no telling what we might find.”

I'm going to go waaaaaay out on a limb and guess they discover that Pluto looks remarkably like a freakin' planet!

As one ages, one begins to take comfort in the little things [very very teeny tiny things] that never change, like the intellectualoid horrorshow that still goes by the name Slate.com.

...On July 14, 2015, the New Horizons spacecraft will whip past Pluto at
more than 30,000 miles per hour after a flight lasting almost a decade.
It carries what mission director Alan Stern calls "the best
first-reconnaissance set of instruments for a planet, ever." We've had
some amazing first looks at the four giant planets over the decades:
majestic Jupiter and its bizarre moons, Saturn's ethereal rings, and the
ocean-hued Uranus and Neptune. If you're old enough to remember the
transformations of those bodies from blobs to fully realized worlds by
the Voyager missions, you know the potential impact of Pluto's debut.

"Pluto was the harbinger of knowledge that the solar system has
thousands of planets, and nearly all of them are tiny," Stern says.
Pluto and those other icy worlds inhabit a vast realm of the solar
system called the Kuiper Belt. New Horizons will pay the first visit to
such a world.

The biggest question is about Pluto's surface: Is it alive or dead?
Pluto's craters, ridges, valleys, and other landforms may have been
frozen and locked in place for eons. The sculpted ices of nitrogen,
methane, and carbon monoxide would look eerie and beautiful, but it's
less interesting scientifically if Pluto is stuck that way. There's a
chance—despite surface temperatures of about minus-400 degrees
Fahrenheit—that some internal source of heat could make Pluto's surface
ooze, flow, and perhaps erupt with icy geysers...Pluto's tenuous atmosphere is another focus for New Horizons. From
Earth, it's a nearly imperceptible wisp around Pluto's margins. The
light-and-dark patterns seen by Hubble are the barest hint that the
atmosphere and the surface interact as the planet's climate changes.
Pluto's oval orbit takes it so far away (up to about 50 times the
distance from Earth to the sun) that the atmosphere may freeze out as
bright crystals onto a surface tinged red by methane. The spacecraft
also may see clouds and fog: Plutonian meteorology, driven by the
planet's all-natural [Golly. The retromingent pansies at Slate.com didn't blame it on the Koch brothers. Will wonders never cease? - F.G.] global warming and cooling. The barely-there atmosphere has kept us from knowing exactly how big
Pluto is. Marc Buie, Stern's colleague at SwRI, wrote his Ph.D. thesis
on Pluto as a last-minute swap 30 years ago, and the planet's elusive
size has fascinated him since. "We're finally going to know the diameter
of Pluto!" he told me in an urgent voice that only an obsessed
scientist could conjure. For the record, Buie's published estimate is
2,306 kilometers (1,433 miles) in diameter. (In contrast, Earth's moon
is 3,475 kilometers wide.) But Buie confided: "I think it's closer to
2,320 kilometers." Stay tuned!...

Our little corner of the universe just got a little more crowded.

Scientists at the Carnegie Carnegie Institution for Science announced
Wednesday the discovery of a new cosmic neighbor -- a distant dwarf
planet named 2012 VP113 that was found spinning in the depths of space
well past Pluto. Its existence suggests there may be another actual
planet out there, they said, a rogue giant ten times bigger than Earth
orbiting in the distant blackness.

One thing is clear: Astronomers will have to rethink the cosmic limits of our solar system.

"This is an extraordinary result that redefines our understanding of
our solar system," Linda Elkins-Tanton, director of Carnegie’s
Department of Terrestrial Magnetism, said in a press release.

Wouldn't it be cool to have a tee shirt or a hat or a badge that reads Department of Terrestrial Magnetism? That's why scientists get all the hot chicks, kiddies.

'Some of these objects could rival the size of Mars or even Earth.' - Scott Sheppard of the Gemini Observatory

The solar system as we know it today is divided into three parts:
First come the rocky, Earth-like planets that are closest to the sun,
next the gas giant planets like Jupiter and Saturn, and finally the
frozen objects in the Kuiper Belt outside of Neptune's orbit.

Pluto, which was demoted from planet status to dwarf planet in 2006,
lives in the Kuiper Belt. And in it there appears to be a clear edge to
the solar system 50 astronomical units out (AUs, a measure of the
distance from the Earth to the sun) -- with the exception of the 2003
discovery of Sedna, one of those frozen objects that was believed until
now to be the furthest known thing from the sun.

Sedna lives in a region of space called the Oort cloud, a vast region
of space that may be where many comets come from. Sedna lives in it,
and the discovery of 2012 VP113 suggests that there may nearly 1,000
objects beyond that 50 AU "end" of the solar system.

"The search for these distant inner Oort cloud objects beyond Sedna
and 2012 VP113 should continue, as they could tell us a lot about how
our solar system formed and evolved," Carnegie’s Scott Sheppard of the
Gemini Observatory said in a press release.

2012 VP113 is located 80 times the distance of the Earth from the sun (80 AUs), while Sedna is at 76 AU.

Sheppard and fellow researcher Chadwick Trujillo determined that the
Oort cloud is likely bigger than the Kuiper Belt and main asteroid belt.
And the similarity in the orbits of Sedna, 2012 VP113 and a few other
objects out there suggests that a massive planet may be shepherding
them. Sheppard and Trujillo suggest a super Earth or an even larger
object at hundreds of AU could create the shepherding effect seen in the
orbits of these objects, which are too distant to be pulled on
significantly by any of the known planets.

"Some of these inner Oort cloud objects could rival the size of Mars
or even Earth," said Sheppard. "This is because many of the inner Oort
cloud objects are so distant that even very large ones would be too
faint to detect with current technology."

Of course, I wish them all the best.

Jennifer Love Hewitt married her actor partner Brian Hallisay just five days before giving birth to her first child.

The
actress' publicist confirmed the surprise wedding news following the
arrival of the couple's daughter, Autumn, in November, revealing they
married in secret before her arrival.

Hewitt has now opened up
about the low-key ceremony, admitting she wed less than a week before
becoming a mother, and followed the intimate nuptials with a trip to a
homeware store.

She tells US TV host Ellen DeGeneres, "I got
married... Five days before she was born, basically... It was just the
two of us and then we went to (store) Bed, Bath and Beyond because
that's what married people do... It was... really sweet and he's an
awesome, incredible father and a great husband and I just feel really
lucky."

You better treat her right, Hallisay.

Hewitt also reveals she struggled to keep her pregnancy a secret during her last appearance on The Ellen DeGeneres Show in April, 2013 due to her blossoming figure.

She
adds, "I was already pregnant and I couldn't tell anybody... The
wardrobe (department) put me in this dress... And (my breasts) were like
up here and I came out and all I saw was your face and you were like,
'Hey!' And then (guest co-host Matthew Perry) was like, 'Hi,' and I was
like, 'Hello!'"

The interview on The Ellen DeGeneres Show airs in the US on Tuesday (01Apr14).

Tinseltown couldn’t conjure a bigger nightmare than true-life Philadelphia serial killer Kermit Gosnell.
He preyed on hundreds of poor minority women. He systematically
executed hundreds of healthy, living, breathing, squirming, viable
babies by stabbing them in their necks and severing spinal cords with
scissors and knives. This twisted murderer kept baby feet in specimen
jars, which he crammed into the grisly refrigerators of his filthy
“clinic.” For “research.”

A year ago this month, the monster Gosnell was convicted
of murdering three babies born alive in his death factory. He also was
found guilty of involuntary manslaughter in the death of one of his
“patients,” 41-year-old Bhutanese refugee Karnamaya Mongar, who died of a barbarically administered drug overdose at Gosnell’s “Women’s Medical Society.”

Let me remind you that for 15 bloody years, public officials stood by and did nothing.

The Pennsylvania Department of Health knew of clinic violations dating back decades, but did nothing.

The Pennsylvania Department of State was “repeatedly confronted with
evidence about Gosnell,” investigators found — including the clinic’s
unclean, unsterile conditions, unlicensed workers, unsupervised
sedation, underage abortion patients and over-prescribing of pain pills
with high resale value on the street — “and repeatedly chose to do
nothing.”

Nearby hospital officials, who treated some of the pregnant mothers
who suffered grave complications from Gosnell’s butchery, did nothing.

“Women’s health” advocates at the National Abortion Federation, the
leading association of abortion providers that is supposed to uphold
strict health and legal standards, determined that Gosnell’s chamber of
horrors was “the worst abortion clinic she had ever inspected.” But they did nothing.

Hollywood bigwigs have not lifted a finger or raised a voice for the innocent victims of these criminal enterprises. But you can. Independent filmmakers Phelim McAleer and Ann McElhinney and their crew are producing a made-for-TV movie on Gosnell, whom they rightly dub “America’s Most Prolific Serial Killer.”
These trailblazers have circumvented the information and entertainment
gatekeepers before with their crowd-funded smash hit, “FrackNation.”
They’re poised to upend the mainstream entertainment culture again. But
they need your help.

For the past month, McAleer and McElhinney have conducted the
largest-ever crowd-funding campaign in American history. Forced off of
crowd-funding site Kickstarter by extreme pro-abortion censors, they are
raising money on Indiegogo. Nearly 17,000 donors have contributed more than $1.6 million. The Gosnell moviemakers now have a little more than a week to reach their $2.1-million goal.

Why make a made-for-TV movie about Gosnell?

Because the Philadelphia Horror is a chilling tale of how mass
murder, masquerading as “choice,” got a pass — and all Americans need to
know about it.
Because there are vital lessons here for every daughter, mother and
grandmother about the dangers of apathetic bureaucrats and the duplicity
of “reproductive services” providers.

Because Gosnell may be behind bars now, but he is not alone.

California’s Dr. Andrew Rutland, Maryland’s Dr. Steven Brigham and Texas’ Dr. Douglas Karpen
are just three of the Dr. Deaths who reportedly endangered women or
killed babies born alive. Like Gosnell, Rutland killed an Asian woman
after administering a drug overdose during a late-term abortion
procedure. Like Gosnell, Brigham stored the bodies of late-term fetuses
in freezers. Medical boards and health departments downplayed or
whitewashed their murderous malpractice just like they did in
Pennsylvania.

Thanks to McAleer and McElhinney’s vision, courage and tenacity, you can help end the cover-up once and for all. You can make a difference by donating at gosnellmovie.com.
I can’t think of a better way to honor Mother’s Day: Show your
reverence for life, help expose the truth, seize this cultural moment
and make history.

Hollywood is sick, sick, sick. Behind its curtain of holier-than-thou
progressivism, the entertainment world’s top A-list stars have engaged
in the most depraved sexual abuse against vulnerable children and teens,
according to a growing number of victims. After years of cover-up, the
institutional scandal is exploding. Finally.

The latest alleged atrocities involve “X-Men” director Bryan Singer
and at least three other power players in the business: veteran
television executive Garth Ancier, former Disney executive David Neuman
and producer Gary Goddard. Last month, former child actor and model
Michael Egan filed civil suits against the men, alleging that they passed around underage boys “like pieces of meat at sex parties”
in the late 1990s. Egan’s X-rated lawsuit exposes a cabal of alleged
predators who plied young boys and teens with hard drugs and alcohol
before sexually assaulting them.

Egan was repeatedly molested, raped and beaten from the age of 15, he
says, at an infamous gay sex mansion in southern California. The
mansion was owned by another of Egan’s alleged abusers: scumbag Internet
video mogul Marc Collins-Rector. He’s a registered sex offender who lured young boys online, drugged and raped them, and reportedly threatened them with a gun if they did not submit.
Collins-Rector was convicted in 2004 of transporting five underage
boys across state lines with the intent of raping them. He was allowed
to leave the U.S. in 2006 by claiming a “brain tumor,”
according to The Hollywood Reporter. The (U.K.) Sun reported in 2007
that he was “swanning around Britain in a chauffer-driven limo and surrounding himself with young boys.” He can no longer be located, despite supposedly being under police “supervision.”

Egan’s mother reported the abuse to the FBI and Los Angeles Police Department back in 2000, the family’s lawyer, Jeff Herman, says. Nothing was done.
Singer’s lawyer calls Egan’s suit “absurd” and “defamatory.” But the allegations just keep piling up. Singer is now the subject of another lawsuit
filed this week by a young British man who alleges Singer’s producer
pal Gary Goddard groomed him online from the age of 14, raped him at 16
and shared him with Singer after the London premiere of Singer’s movie
“Superman Returns” in 2006. Internet photos have been circulating for years showing Singer with a parade of young boys and men draped around him.

Egan’s claims are especially chilling in light of similarly lurid allegations made 17 years ago
on the set of Singer’s movie “Apt Pupil.” Three underage boys — ages
14, 16 and 17 — filed suit claiming Singer and his crew forced them to
take off peach-colored G-strings and strip naked in a shower scene for
the movie. Authorities investigated. The suit was dismissed. Nothing was
done.

“Everyone’s ducking for cover,” Paul Petersen, a former child
actor and child actors’ advocate, told Entertainment Weekly in 1997.
“It’s a complete and total breakdown of the protections Hollywood
pretends it accords children.”

The same industry that sanctimoniously convenes anti-bullying summits with the Obama White House and falsely accuses conservatives of waging a “war on women”
has allowed countless children to be stalked, groomed, beaten, molested
and raped on casting couches, in movie trailers, and at drug- and
alcohol-drenched parties by Tinseltown predators. The alleged child rape
scandal exposed by Egan does not exist in a vacuum:

–Last year, child actor Corey Feldman
sounded the alarm on rampant pedophilia in a brave, scathing memoir. He
recounted how his best friend and co-star, the late Corey Haim, was
sodomized by an older male on the set of their hit film “Lucas.” The
boys, fed cocaine by a string of predators, attended parties with
Hollywood talent manager and child actors’ rep Marty Weiss. Now a registered sex offender,
Weiss pleaded no contest in 2012 to lewd acts on a child under the age
of 14. The victim, another young child actor, alleged Weiss sexually
assaulted him between 30 and 40 times from the age of 11.

–Despite disturbing and longstanding allegations of molestation and rape, directors Woody Allen and Roman Polanski still enjoy professional acclaim and adoration of their peers.

–Perv fashion photographer Terry Richardson
continues to enjoy the support of Lady Gaga, Beyonce, Rihanna and Miley
Cyrus despite years of allegations of misogyny, manipulation and sexual
misconduct against young models.

If all of these sickos had been Catholic priests,
college fraternity members or charter school teachers, we wouldn’t have
heard the end of it. Perhaps the social justice awareness-raisers in
the Hollywood left should take a break from pointing fingers at everyone
else — and put a stop to the monsters in their own midst.

Canada, too...

NEW YORK, N.Y. - The handsome football player gets drafted by an NFL team, plants an emotional kiss on his sweetheart and gives sportscasts a feel-good video clip...

BTW, animals are instinctive while men (Oh, the irony! Which one does the ironing?) are rational. Isn't the above a tad racist?

Above: Michael Sam and his second favorite penis [for now] in the whole wide world play Hetero Wedding, a game that is all the rage in pervert precincts.

In Ukraine, Vitali Klitschko and Sergey Bubka are fighting to save their country from the fascist imperative that infects too many of my idiot Russian cousins while we have to put up with clowns like Sam who define their existence with their genitals and the PervertFirst Media that enables them.

About Me

First of all, the word is SEX, not GENDER. If you are ever tempted to use the word GENDER, don't. The word is SEX! SEX! SEX! SEX! For example: "My sex is male." is correct.
"My gender is male." means nothing. Look it up.
What kind of sick neo-Puritan nonsense is this? Idiot left-fascists, get your blood-soaked paws off the English language. Hence I am choosing "male" under protest.